Staci Americas – a third-party logistics (3PL) provider whose services include warehousing, order fulfillment, transportation and returns management – has deployed Corvus One Autonomous Inventory Management System.
The Corvus One Inventory Management System is aimed at more accurately and efficiently tracking and store materials in warehouses. Staci Americas has deployed the system at its Georgia, and New Jersey warehouses for multi-client buildings.
The system performs scheduled lights-out flights nightly off-shift, ensuring any inventory discrepancies flagged by the Corvus One system.
The discrepancies are corrected pre-shift the next morning, allowing production and inbound teams to focus on their tasks without having to search for inventory.
It runs an inventory check round-the-clock without operator assistance from human counterparts.
“Being able to run inventory checks 24/7 without operator assistance has been a game changer. The lights-out capability in the Corvus One system allows our inventory teams to correct discrepancies off-shift and pre-shift before production starts each day; limiting fulfillment delays and production impacts,” said Austin Feagins, Senior Director of Transformation and Solution Design, Staci Americas.
Corvus One autonomous inventory management system
Corvus had released the updated version of its autonomous inventory management system in October 2024.
The upgrade allowed the company to fly its drone-powered system in a lights-out distribution center without any added infrastructure like reflectors, stickers, or beacons.
The drone system uses computer vision and generative artificial intelligence (AI) to make sense of its environment. The autonomous drones can operate in very narrow (minimum width of 50 inches), and very wide aisles.
The drones have obstacle detection ability, which allows them to hover around without collision. They can also ascend or fly lower to avoid humans, other robots, forklifts, or objects lying on the ground.
They use barcode scanning to read any barcode symbology in any orientation placed anywhere on the front of cartons or pallets.
Benefits of using the system
Corvus Robotics says that the inventory management system can boost productivity by up to 10 times at warehouses, and can also cut labor costs.
Further, it helps maximize the use of available spaces in warehouses, avoids stock outs, and more. For example, the company says that the system ensures “99.9 percent inventory accuracy, can free up to 10 percent total pallet racking space, and reduces shrinkage and material handling equipment costs.”
Moreover, it is not dependent on a warehouse management system being in place.
The company also offers free hardware and software upgrades to keep meeting the growing demands, and ensures that the best solutions in the market are integrated.
In 2024, the company had raised $18 million in Series A round and seed funding led by S2G Ventures and Spero Ventures.
“The Corvus One system is a vital component of end-to-end inventory visibility and optimization,” said Jackie Wu, co-founder and CEO, Corvus Robotics.
“We’re growing extremely quickly, and our recent funding round will be used to help Corvus meet rapidly growing customer adoption while continuing to build products with capabilities nowhere else in the world ever has had.”
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